From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GgwxL-0008Ut-My for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:23:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA65LJeL018253; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:21:20 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA65J9mP017644 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:19:09 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a4so1078516nfc for ; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:19:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WaMF0gyPe/O3ZMlEe67X8ZYCliV0qktnuPSHVigubpNltGJl3tyU2EEsL3lD3Q2wDpqU2kCn15AbqCcC/I+Otx8FR6VqFbETwJ2dERZBPUmgqV7H1KNp8fVV7j2gkcEHVt6wba2KVcZjymP8GIMCN2LitkaUdAHhDS5tZ2CWdcg= Received: by 10.82.129.8 with SMTP id b8mr1213989bud.1162790349082; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:19:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.154.17 with HTTP; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 21:19:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9b1675090611052119i68691356s92670db202f9120f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:19:09 -0700 From: "Trenton Adams" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare In-Reply-To: <200611031515.59246.harmgeerts@home.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b1675090611022143u4d5fc834ucdaba614fec34a55@mail.gmail.com> <200611031515.59246.harmgeerts@home.nl> X-Archives-Salt: e79e480f-c83d-4aa8-b3a9-ab02a41c1877 X-Archives-Hash: 8df8011df93f37046d2e78df8e241b9e Yes, VMWare is fit for the task, simply because I would be using it on a windows machine. Unless there is something better for a windows machine? Thanks for the hints. On 11/3/06, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 03 November 2006 06:43, Trenton Adams wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? > > > > Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that > > are all independent of each other, which provide one service. For > > instance, I might put apache on one VM, and tomcat on another, and so > > on. Obviously, I would want their memory usage to be absolutely > > minimized, seeing that I would like to run them all on one computer. > > I would probably provide them 64M-128M of RAM each, for their specific > > service. Perhaps a little more if really required. > > > > Is there really anything that I should worry about? Perhaps I should > > just DO IT? > > Nick[1] made a post about minimizing Gentoo a while back. > But that topic was mainly about the disk usage. > I suppose you would benefit from a system that uses the -Os flag to create > small binairies. > > But do you think vmware is fit for such a task? > vmware is a big strain on resources itself. > You might want to have a look at xen[2] instead. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/160899/focus=160903 > [2] http://www.xensource.com/xen/xen/index.html > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list